Amaranth is a natural food that contains protein, essential amino acids, lysine who make it and ideal balanced diet and nutritious. Unlike quinoa amaranth is completely free of saponin.
It's a Pre Columbian plant, its name means "everlasting life", because it grows in marginal lands with little water, a single plant can produce about a million seeds that with appropriate treatment can be preserved all its properties more than 40 years.

Proteins
Proteins are essential to repair daily wear produced in the turnover and cell renewal and synthesis of new tissue growth and development situations

Lysine
Lysine is supporting the growth and development. Lysine may increase calcium absorption and improves the deposition of calcium in the bone matrix. It is a critical component to generate energy in the body.

:: Amaranth

:: Amaranth history

In a comparison of ideal balance of essential amino acids, shows that in most of the amino acids of amaranth grain in particular has 75% of protein quality in relation to cow's milk has 72% and whole wheat 56%. It's LDL food, also contains Omega 3, an important component that helps to eliminate bad cholesterol. (Click image to enlarge the picture)

Amaranth, named millmi in Bolivia, is a plant that was considered sacred and consumed more than 4,000 years ago by precolombinas civilizations .